Making children laugh can build deep emotional connections and soothe their nervous systems, making them more resilient and open to new ideas, says a leading child development expert. Dr. Jacqueline ...

When it comes to cancer, tumor suppressor genes are usually thought of as the "good guys." These genes make proteins that protect and repair DNA in cells. If they stop functioning or there's not ...

Humans continuously adapt their actions and behaviors in response to changes in their surrounding environment. Past ...

Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo updated the death toll from the Ebola outbreak to 204 late Saturday, hours after the Red Cross said three volunteers had died there and Uganda confirmed ...

A new article published in the neurocognitive journal Entropy argues that Sigmund Freud's model of the mind, as well as more ...

Humans have around 30 trillion cells in our adult bodies. Amazingly, each of these cells came from a handful of about 100 ...

When South African infectious disease specialist Lucille Blumberg checked her email on the morning of May 1, while the ...

A single dose of psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, reduces nerve pain for up to a month and makes a widely ...

A new oral antiviral drug candidate has been developed for the treatment of diseases caused by orthoparamyxoviruses, such as ...

Metabolic/bariatric surgery is a highly effective treatment for people living with severe obesity and/or metabolic health ...

In a new study published in Nature Immunology, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital demonstrated that pairing the ...

A study led by researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has identified a mitochondrial ...